Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest was a blast. When we first entered the gournds, we were surpised that it looked much like a carnival, rides and games galore, except the whole place smelled fantastic, like cinamon and nuts and baked goods. There are tons of little stores selling German hearts with writing on them, it's so neat! Everyone there dresses in the traditional German way, with the trousers and dresses and all, and even teh kids are drinking! There are so many beer tents, excet they are actually huge wooden houses constructed just for Oktoberfest, inside there is a giant oompah band playing in the center of the tent, there are tons of reserved tables and such and there are seats outside. We were loking all around and we finally found a tent we could get into - The Paulaner tent...we sat next to some guys and were busy chatting away with them, they were German and very very nice. Ifound that the Germans have dfinately been the nicest people we have met thus far...anyway they were really nice and fun to chat with, we started with a liter of beer each, itwas very expensive, almost 8 euro for a beer which is over 10 dollars...anyway we got there around 3 and stayed until the tents closed around 11 but i only had 2 liters, still al ot. We learned how to "prost" that is cheers in German, also sang the German drinking songs, had the MOST DELICOUIS CHICKEN BREAST EVER i guess it is traditional german cuisine, sooooo good! So salty and fatty...mmm...and the experience was just surreal. The German kids dont act out of control and it is not as bad as you would think, I felt perfectly safe and everyone was there to have a good time and celebrate life, not to drink to their deaths. Although there was one lady that got carried away on a stretcher but Ithink she was having chest pains, who knows. The day was beautiful, the weather perfect and we had made some new friends....except this one German guy who kept talking crap in the states, then the conversation completely flipped once he realized we weren't morongs, he admitetd tha the lovedt h staets, had been there 15 tiems and could like to move there one day...so strange.next thingwe knew it was getting late and the tents were closeing so we started to leave, on the way things got mixed up and kate ended up getting separeted from us, this was bad news so we were freaking out and couldn't find her, we waited by the subway and she came and all was well, we went back to fabiola's to crash. We were in the subway and kate and i were talking, a german kid heard me talking and starting flirting with us, then he asked me "Where from? UK?" i said "no, the US" and with that he said |"bah" and ran away, i was so annoyed...then we got into a deep conversation about life outside the dorms before passing out late in the evening in munich, it was all in all a great day, despite the ignorant american-haters!